Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-10-29
THE cREA rIoN or NAN.
BY JOHN W. HEWITT.

$50 God created man in his own i'm
dge'.'-Genesis il p
When there was naught but space-before
When chaos slept and darkness reigned
sublime;
When no material thing-not cen the air,
Found habitation in the silence there:
No ripple of an angels breath--no sound
Nothing shat lYes-all still and dark
around:
Gods spirit moved throughout the Vastly
space,
Mysterious randiance flashing from his
When forth His fiat went LET there be
lightr'
And light there was; the spirit of the
Bv Gods decree, fed DER his ebon track,
Bearing the ncw-made world upon his
back,
earth,
To living things he gave primeval birth.
He made the vapors-ireed the bubbling
The spring the brook-the brooks to bring
Their liquid tribute to The rivers wide,
The rivers to the oceans mighty tide.
The air helmade--filled it with feathered
things
That fashion'd music, while they Piled
their wings
He painted with pencil dipped in ligh
The rainbow on the cloud-the tiow'rett
bright
He made paradise where angel choirs
Might sing His praise and sweep their gol-
den Tyres,
And named it Eden. Then He said, ''Tis
we'll
But where's the being with soul--to tell
The beauties Of this orb---the yielding
Earth
To name the Architect that gaveit BIRTH"
The God, in Triune grand, the counciled,
and
1t was resolved that man should rule the
land,
And sea and all that Earth brought forth,
From the warm South up to the frozen
North.
"Let us make man." said He, "but how?
A spirit to whose beauty all must bowy
Or of the Earth made animate with soul,
With power to reason, multiply, CONTROL"
In the blue depths the evening star arose
Bright as dew-drop when the morning
And ont she spake: "No brighter orb /
see,
Lord of the Universe. make him like me-"
Then God said, mo" and fair Selene rose
In the dim East, like one from sweet re-
pose;
Her robes Of slvery white from the dark
ssFather Of all p said she," make him like
me-"
Then through the depths came answering
low,
The fiat of the holy Tribune, "No."
Aurora then, in all her gay attire,
Her crimson scarf and drapery of fire,
With ROSY finger ope'd thetorient gate,
And beralded the day With pride elate
She smiled upon the wavelets oftne sea,
And, pleading. spake to God, snake him
like me.'
From boundless space came thund'ring
down below
Jehoyah's answer to the pleader, Mop
Then followed Helois, mighty king of day,
Arrayed in robes imperial-half gay,
Half mountaineering a look of wrath
And scat'ring life and death along his path;
His chariot wheels, with spokes OF pent-up
And lambent flashes darling from each
tire,
Rolled through the armament DER blasted
lea,
And shouted. ''Father! model him like me-"
Then spake Jehovah through the dazzling
That poured from out the blazing day-god
s'NO."
Next an archangel, shining in pure light
Ethereal and heavenly-as bright
AS purity's own diadem, swift flew
Midst stars unknown to us, through re-
gions blue,
Up to the court where only angels trod,
And knelt to Him, the everlasting God,
snake him like me, o Siren' he pleaded
low;
Jehovah deigned to smile--but answered,
"No,"
There was no other archetpye TO seek;
God was the only Three-in-One to speak;
''Let us make man--but hOw?' the Triune
said,
,"In our own image be he forthwith madew
~ 10 nd no EipU
Earth
Temptations tool--but God-like from his
birth
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